Victoria Cross railway station
Victoria Cross | ||||||||||||||||
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 McLaren Street Northern Entrance | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Miller Street, North Sydney Australia | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°50′14″S 151°12′27″E / 33.8372415°S 151.2075279°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Transport Asset Holding Entity | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro Trains Sydney | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Sydney Metro City & Southwest | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Metro Trains Sydney | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | Under construction | |||||||||||||||
| Website | www.sydneymetro.info | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opening | Scheduled for 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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Victoria Cross is a future underground rapid transit station, to be located beneath the central business district of North Sydney, Australia. The station forms part of Transport for NSW's Sydney Metro City & Southwest scheme. It is scheduled to open in 2024.
A station at Victoria Cross was proposed in 2001 as part of Co-ordinator General of Rail Ron Christie's Strategic Plan for Rail, as a stop for trains travelling to the north-west, Northern Beaches, Cronulla and Macarthur. The new station – a block away from the existing station in Blue Street – was designed to take pressure off the constrained interchange, which dates from 1932.[1] The NSW Government incorporated many of Christie's ideas in its Metropolitan Rail Expansion Program (MREP) in 2005, including Victoria Cross station as part of a future Redfern to Chatswood railway line. When the MREP was cancelled in 2008, the idea of a station at Victoria Cross was dropped as well.
The concept of a Redfern to Chatswood line was partially revived by the NSW Government as part of the Sydney's Rail Future plan in 2012, this time as a metro stop. A detailed concept plan, including a station at Victoria Cross, went on public exhibition in 2015. The station entrance will be on the eastern side of Miller Street between Berry and Mount Streets.[2]
In June 2017 changes were announced including an additional station entrance on McLaren Street. The second entrance is notable for being the first lift-only entrance to a passenger train station in Australia, and consists of 4 lifts capable of carrying 27 people each.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Christie, Ron (2001). Long-term Strategic Plan for Rail. Sydney: Office of the Co-ordinator General of Rail.
- ^ Transport for New South Wales (June 2015). "Sydney Metro City & Southwest". Archived from the original on 17 September 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Matt (11 July 2017). "Lift-only station entrance planned for Sydney's new $20 billion Metro train line". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
External links[edit]
- Victoria Cross station Sydney Metro